Roneo

See also: roneo and ronéo

English

ro(tary) + Neo(style) (“the manufacturer's name”)

Roneo (plural Roneos)

(chiefly historical) A copying machine using stencils.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 104:
  For his "sermons" were recorded and Roneo-copied for the benefit of absent members.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 91:
  on board would be a loyal caid, Hadj Sadok, who had the previous day received a roneo copy of the F.L.N.'s proclamation […]

Roneo (third-person singular simple present Roneos, present participle Roneoing, simple past and past participle Roneoed)

To copy using a Roneo stencil machine.
- 1963, John le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Penguin Canada, published 2009, page 25:
  He pushed across the counter a roneoed form with his particulars entered in a sloping hand.